He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property— the eyes of his children will fail.
Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a simple babbler.
Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak. May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts,
A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
I will not show partiality to any man or use flattery toward any person. For I do not know how to flatter, else my Maker would soon take me away.
But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last.”
Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
And among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but the Lord will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and a languishing soul.
You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness.
Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.
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